I. Choose the correct variant.

The American court ___1___ is complex. It functions as the part of the federal system of government. Each state ___2___ its own court system. In addition, we have a system of courts for the national government. These federal courts ___3___ with state courts. Individuals fall under the jurisdiction of two ___4___ court systems, their state court and federal courts. They ___5___ sue or be sued either system, depending mostly on what this ___6___ is about. Most cases are ___7___ in the state courts. The federal courts are organized in three ___8___, like a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid are the district courts, where ___9___ begins. In the middle ___10___ the US courts of appeals. At the top is the US Supreme Court. To appeal means to take a case to a ___11___ court. The court of appeal and the Supreme Court are appellate courts, with ___12___ exceptions; they review cases that ___13___ decided in lower courts. ___14___ federal courts hear and decide a wide ___15___ of cases; the judges in these courts are ___16___ as generalists.

1. a) branch 2. a) possesses 3. a) coexist 4. a) various 5. a) must 6. a) deal 7. a) determined 8. a) tiers 9. a) examination 10. a) are 11. a) higher 12. a) little 13. a) have been 14. a) much 15. a) array 16. a) spread

b) construction b) rules b) are coexisting b) different b) may b) case b) resolved b) rows b) investigation b) is b) lower b) a little b) were b) most b) arrange b) considered

c) system c) runs c) are coexisted c) diverse c) can c) situation c) decided c) lines c) litigation c) – c) medium c) few c) had been c) a lot c) majority c) known

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